Our Values
These five principles guide everything we do:
1. Commitment to Excellence
Our customers depend on us to help them navigate one of life’s most stressful and difficult gates. We owe them an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in every essay we review. We strive to set the standard for excellence in our industry by hiring only the best editors who have themselves gained admission to the most selective programs in the world and by ensuring every order is reviewed by a primary editor and a quality-assurance editor. We know that our business depends on repeat customers who trust us with their most personal and important documents, and we pledge ourselves to honor that promise with every essay we edit.
2. Democratizing Admissions: Making it Fairer
Let’s face it: fair is not a word any one with a brain would use to describe the admissions process. Many start from an enormous advantage, paying in some cases tens of thousands of dollars for expensive test prep tutors, literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on expensive private schools with the best counselors, and they top it off with unlimited budgets to pursue activities and interests. Those people have been hiring expensive consultants for decades, and they’re most likely to benefit from the “legacy” boost of admitted parents and grandparents. Against this landscape, EssayMaster levels the playing field by delving deep into one topic, knowing it better than anyone, and making that advice available to everybody.
At significant cost, we’ve assembled literally hundreds of hours of admissions essay help content and many hundreds of successful sample personal statements, including detailed analyses of what worked and didn’t. We are committed to helping applicants improve their essays whether they pay for our services or not. The reason is simple … we want every visitor to our site and mobile apps to succeed. That’s why we also offer free weekly Zoom Office Hours and why we pledge $25,000+ in free admissions essay editing services for applicants who lack the ability to pay.
Our commitment to democratizing admissions is also why we price our service as we do. We feel an obligation to maintain the highest levels of service and the lowest prices.
3. Adopt Technologies That Improve Essays
Humans are still—by far—the best option for editing. Still … AI has come a long way. Certain language models, like GPT-3, have evolved emergent reasoning capacity. In the year 2021, it would be foolish to imagine that machines cannot aid a human editor. AI-assisted human editing is the state-of-the-art in admissions essay editing. In the first round, the job of the editor is what it has been since Gutenberg: to improve the words on the page, to look for big-picture issues, to judge the substance, to improve transition, to ensure the reader wants to move from word to word, from sentence to sentence, and from paragraph to paragraph.
But the machine has a place too. The machine is helpful in ensuring an absence of carelessness. In the hands of a skilled editor, language AI improves the editing process. We’ve analyzed many hundreds of successful essays accepted by Harvard, Yale, and many other leading colleges and graduate programs. We’ve scored them against leading language models, and we can tell you how your essay ranks against these successful examples, and we edit it to ensure the writing itself scores in the same range as essays accepted by the finest universities in the world.
4. Fight Harmlessly
We believe, as the poet Rilke did, that the way forward in business as in life is to “fight harmlessly.” We never denigrate competitors, and we always treat partners with respect. Strong relationships with the broader industry are important to our reaching the maximum number of applicants and to our ability to attract and retain the finest editors in the world.
5. Privacy and Confidentiality
Our customers’ names will never be shared with anyone. To breach this confidence would be unthinkable.